In the crater, a central dome called Cerealia Facula is thought have been formed by icy lava sputtering up through fractures, possibly pushed by gases in the brine.
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Since it arrived at Ceres in March 212, it has sent home some really great science, including photos of this feature called Cerealia Facula, located in the Occator Crater.
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Since it arrived at Ceres in March 2015, it has sent home some really great science, including photos of this feature called Cerealia Facula, located in the Occator Crater.
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"The age and appearance of the material surrounding the bright dome indicate that Cerealia Facula was formed by a recurring, eruptive process, which also hurled material into more outward regions of the central pit," Nathues, NASA Dawn's framing camera lead investigator, said in a press release.
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MESSENGER image Sarpa Facula is a bright region on the surface of Mercury, located at 53.07° S, 30.87° W. It was named by the IAU in 2019. Sarpa is the Sinhalese word for snake. Sarpa Facula is north of Ular Facula and southeast of Havu Facula and Bitin Facula.
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MESSENGER image Ular Facula is a bright region on the surface of Mercury, located at 55.1° S, 29.95° W. It was named by the IAU in 2019. Ular is the Malay word for snake. Ular Facula is south of Sarpa Facula and northeast of Pampu Facula.
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Oblique view of Neidr Facula by MESSENGER Neidr Facula is a bright, irregular depression on the surface of Mercury, located at 35.9° N, 302.7° W. It was named by the IAU in 2018. Neidr is the Welsh word for snake. Neidr Facula is located north of the prominent Rachmaninoff crater and west of the bright Nathair Facula.
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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington The facula is approximately 270 km wide, although the edges are diffuse. Nathair Facula is located northeast of the prominent Rachmaninoff crater, west of Copland crater, and east of the smaller Neidr Facula.
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Amalthea (photo by Voyager 1). Lyctos Facula is the lower bright spot Lyctos Facula is a bright mountain on one of Jupiter's smallest moons Amalthea. It is believed to have a width of 25 kilometers . It is one of two named faculae that appear on Amalthea, the other being Ida Facula.
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The Santorini Facula is a facula (bright spot) on the surface of Titan, around a 40 km wide impact crater. It was named after the Greek island Santorini in 2006.
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MESSENGER NAC image, showing Zmija Facula within the crater near center Approximate color image centered on Zmija Facula within Rembrandt Zmija Facula is a bright region on the surface of Mercury, located within an unnamed crater that is itself within the larger Rembrandt basin. It was named by the IAU in June 2020. Zmija is the Serbian word for snake.
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Amalthea (photo by Voyager 1). Ida Facula is an upper bright spot Ida Facula is a bright mountain on Amalthea, one of Jupiter's smallest moons. It is known to be about 15 kilometers in width, somewhat smaller than the neighboring mountain Lyctos Facula. It was discovered by Voyager 1 in 1979 and in the same year named for Mount Ida, a mountain in Crete where Zeus played as a child.
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MESSENGER image Pampu Facula is a bright region on the surface of Mercury, located at 57.76° S, 31.79° W. It was named by the IAU in 2019. Pampu is the Tamil word for snake. Pampu Facula is centered northeast of Hesiod crater.
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Kuniyoshi crater is west of Hesiod, and Pampu Facula is centered on its northeastern rim.
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Ellychnia facula is a species of firefly in the genus Ellychnia. It is widespread across North America.
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Ida Facula and Lyctos Facula are on the left side (on the terminator). Bright spot underside is associated with crater Gaea. Photo by Galileo (2000) Processed Galileo image of Amalthea to show surface features Amalthea is irregularly shaped, with the best ellipsoidal approximation being . From this, Amalthea's surface area is likely between 88,000 and 170,000 square kilometers, or somewhere near 130,000.
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Leading side of Amalthea. North is up, and Jupiter is beyond the right side. Crater Pan is seen on the upper right edge, and Gaea on the lower. Ida Facula and Lyctos Facula are on the left end (upper and lower brightenings respectively) During 1979, the unmanned Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes obtained the first images of Amalthea to resolve its surface features.
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One third of Gaea's interior is covered by a bright spot, the largest on Amalthea. Its brightness is at least 2.3 times greater than the area outside the crater. It is about 25 km wide and appears to extend beyond the crater. Gaea is near Amalthea's south pole, far south from the moon's other bright areas, Lyctos Facula and Ida Facula, which are on the slopes of a prominent mountain elongated along the meridian.
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Within Galileo Regio itself lies the palimpsest Memphis Facula, a relic of an impact crater that has been flattened in a manner characteristic of some of the Solar System bodies with icy crusts.
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Oblique MESSENGER image of Nathair Facula Nathair Facula is a bright region on the surface of Mercury, located at 36° N, 295.5° W. It was named by the IAU in 2018. Nathair is the Irish word for snake. In the center of the region is an irregular depression with crisp topography, surrounded by a region of subdued features. It is interpreted to be the site of explosive volcanic eruptions.New Findings from MESSENGERS’s Low-Altitude Campaign, press conference, 16 March, 2015.
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Voyager 2 image of Memphis Facula (white patch at lower right) on Ganymede A palimpsest , in planetary astronomy, is an ancient crater on an icy moon of the outer Solar System whose relief has disappeared due to creep of the icy surface ("viscous relaxation") or subsequent cryovolcanic outpourings, leaving a circular albedo feature, perhaps with a "ghost" of a rim. Icy surfaces of natural satellites like Callisto and Ganymede preserve hints of their history in these rings. A typical example is Memphis Facula on Ganymede, a 340 km wide palimpsest.
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Oblique view with Copland at center, from MESSENGER's second flyby in October 2008 Copland is an impact crater on Mercury. Its floor is flooded with volcanic smooth plains material, which could be related to the activity that formed the nearby bright vent known as Nathair Facula.
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Memphis Facula is a palimpsest, or "ghost crater", on Ganymede, the largest of the Jovian satellites. About 360 km across, it is situated in the southwestern part of Galileo Regio, a huge almost circular dark region in Ganymede's northern hemisphere. Although almost level today, it is a relic of a massive impact and once was a deep impact crater whose walls have slumped and its floor has risen isostatically, smoothing out the remaining topography with slush. The morphology of the larger palimpsests like Memphis Facula suggests that Ganymede's icy crust at the time of impact was about 10 km thick and was penetrated by the impact, allowing the slush and fluid beneath to fill and level out the crater.
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Image of nearby features Kuniyoshi is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 2014. It is named for the Japanese painter and printmaker Utagawa Kuniyoshi. To the east of Kuniyoshi are Hesiod crater and Pampu Facula, a bright region that is possibly volcanic.
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They are Lyctos Facula and Ida Facula, with width reaching up to 25 km. They are located on the edge of ridges. Amalthea's irregular shape and large size led in the past to a conclusion that it is a fairly strong, rigid body, where it was argued that a body composed of ices or other weak materials would have been pulled into a more spherical shape by its own gravity. However, on 5 November 2002, the Galileo orbiter made a targeted flyby that came within 160 km of Amalthea and the deflection of its orbit was used to compute the moon's mass (its volume had been calculated previously—to within 10% or so—from a careful analysis of all extant images).
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In medieval Valencian the word Falla named the torches that were placed on top of watchtowers. This word is derived from Latin Facula, torch. In the Llibre dels feits, it is stated that the troops of King James I of Aragon carried Fallas to light their way. The material origin of the monumento fallero was burning waste from carpenters and private homes.
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Both the rim and interior of Rembrandt are covered by numerous impact craters, including Bellini, a -wide crater near Rembrandt's centre. Karsh and Castiglione craters lie on the rim. A bright area called Zmija Facula lies within an unnamed crater in southeastern Rembrandt. The central smooth plains embay and partially flood many of these craters suggesting that the plains resulted from the prolonged effusive volcanic activity.
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Kepler-71 is enriched by heavy elements at 170% of Sun metallicity, young and has a very prominent starspot activity. Starspots are covering about 40% of star surface at transit latitudes, each planetary transit passing over an average six starspots. The bright facula regions are even more extensive. Unlike Sun, the photosphere of Kepler-71 rotates nearly like rigid body, with differential rotation not exceeding 2%.
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Sotra Patera (named after the Sotra islands in Norway) is a prominent depression on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. It was formerly known as Sotra Facula; the current name was approved on 19 December 2012. It is a possible cryovolcanic caldera across and deep, and is immediately to the east of the largest putative cryovolcanic mountain on Titan, the high Doom Mons. Sotra Patera is the deepest known pit on Titan.
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Cererian faculae were initially speculated to suggest current or past outgassingLPSC 2015: First results from Dawn at Ceres: provisional place names and possible plumes on Ceres, perhaps due to volcanism or cometary activity. The brightest cluster of spots (Cereale Facula) is located in the center of an crater called Occator. These bright features have an albedo of about 40%, four times brighter than the average of Ceres's surface. The spots appear to be mostly sodium carbonate (), implying that hydrothermal activity followed by evaporation of the water is probably what created the spots.
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Walker, p. 165 One example is when Valerius writes about how Capua was being besieged by Quintus Fulvius Flaccus at the first Battle of Capua; there were two Campanian women who had kind feelings for Rome. They devoted much of their time and property to its benefit.Walker, p. 165 One was Vestia Oppia, a married woman with a family, who labored every day for the Roman army.Walker, p. 165 Another was Cluvia Facula, a prostitute, who supplied food to the Roman prisoners of war.Walker, p. 165 When Capua was defeated, the Roman Senate gave back their freedom and property and rewarded them. These two women were even praised at an important Senate meeting in 210 BCE.Walker, p.
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NASA, December 14, 2010 Global view of Titan showing the location of Sotra Patera The Cassini–Huygens mission has mapped Sotra Patera using the Cassini orbiter's onboard radar instrument and the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer. An earlier survey of the region in 2004 revealed a circular bright spot, or facula, which was nicknamed "The Rose". A subsequent flyby by Cassini re-surveyed the region from a different angle, enabling members of the US Geological Survey Astrogeology Science Center to generate stereoscopic mapping of Sotra Patera and the surrounding area. Researchers also discovered at least two more mountains and another big crater, forming a chain of mountains several hundred kilometers long flanked by lava-covered lowlands.
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Amateur astronomer Ronald Dantowitz and his colleagues Scott Teare and Marek Kozubal used the Mt. Wilson 60-inch telescope in 1998 to observe a very bright feature on this portion of Mercury's surface, and they assumed that the bright feature was an impact crater. Mr. Dantowitz expressed his wish that the crater be named "Copland" once better images of the area were obtained from spacecraft. Surprisingly, MESSENGER images from Mercury flyby 3 revealed that the small bright feature, seen at the left edge of this image and now known as Nathair Facula, is not an impact crater but more closely resembles a volcanic vent. No convention for naming volcanic vents on Mercury had yet been adopted, because none were identified prior to MESSENGERs first Mercury flyby.
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